Seri
Texts

Textos seris

The following texts were collected by
Edward Moser and/or Mary Moser at different dates since 1951.
Initial analysis and translation of them was done with the primary
help of Roberto Herrera M. They have been recently checked against the original recordings
(when available) and edited with the help of several Seri
consultants, including but not limited to the following people: F. Xavier
Moreno Herrera, René Montaño Herrera and Lorenzo Herrera Casanova. (In some
places the editors' decision was that the written text needed
to diverge from an obvious mistake in the oral version.) The texts
are written here using the spelling conventions which have been adopted by
the Seri community for the Seri dictionary (2005). Recent work on these
texts has been made possible by grants from the National Science Foundation
(BCS-0110676) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (FN-50007-06).

Adapted from Mary B. Moser (1996) Seri de
Sonora. Archivo de Lenguas Indígenas de México (Mexico City: El
Colegio de México). The corpus of sentences was designed by Dr. Jorge
Suárez for the purpose of documenting the indigenous languages of Mexico.

Adapted from Edward W. Moser and Mary B. Moser
(1964) Hablemos español (Cocsar íitong quih cöscóoza).
Mexico City: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
The corpus of sentences was designed by someone in the Mexican government
to help speakers of indigenous languages achieve a level of Spanish for
the purposes of basic education.